Monthly Archives: June 2019
86th #TxLege Report Card: Sexual Assault
Texas legislators are commending themselves for passing a few long-overdue bills concerning sexual assault, but progress on sexual harassment and women’s safety proved deplorable...
Gov. Greg Abbott signs $11.6 billion school finance measure into law
Gov. Greg Abbott has signed into law one of lawmakers' biggest achievements this year, a massive overhaul of Texas' long-beleaguered school finance system.
Abbott put...
Gov. Greg Abbott deploys DPS to combat Dallas violent crime spike
Gov. Greg Abbott announced Friday that he has directed the Texas Department of Public Safety to send officers to Dallas to help the city's police respond...
Texas Voters Need to Know Which Legislators Working For Them – We’ll Tell You...
Now that the 86th Texas Legislature has come to a close for the next two years, it’s time for a roll call- find out...
The Texas governor accused people of lying about Texas' maternal mortality rate. The critics...
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott claimed in a tweet Sunday that "critics" of the state's maternal mortality rate had lied about it, citing a year-old article that...
Texas Law Raising Smoking Age to 21, Exempting Active Military, May be Difficult to...
Active U.S. military members are exempt from Texas’ new law that prohibits adults under the age of 21 from purchasing cigarettes.
But the new...
86th #TxLege Report Card: Maternal Mortality (D-)
Women's health for the most part received little support in Texas’ 86th Legislative Session.
At a time when 1-4 Texas women are uninsured, rural obstetrics...
Analysis: Texas conservatives, in search of a new nemesis
When longtime U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy died in 2009, an irreverent Texas political consultant predicted the people who raise money for the two major...
86th #TxLege Report Card: Medical Marijuana
Though some progress toward medical marijuana access was made, many advocates for reform grow frustrated at the hurdles still present.
Background:
In the 2015 legislative session,...
Gov. Greg Abbott signs several school safety bills in wake of shooting at Santa...
Capping off a yearslong effort to prevent another school shooting like the Santa Fe High tragedy, Gov. Greg Abbott signed a series of bills into law...
